By Carol Guensburg | Voice of America
The shifting demographics of the United States are creating more impetus to field political candidates of color — including newer Americans.
Continue reading “Bringing More Diversity to US Ballots Is Both Goal and Challenge”
By Hamza Mohamed | Al Jazeera
Just as people across the United States will be waiting eagerly for the results of Tuesday’s voting, thousands of kilometres away, on the far eastern corner of Africa, Somalis will also be closely watching the hard-fought matchup between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
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Ali Velshi is a Ismaili Muslim of Gujarati Indian descent who was born in Nairobi, Kenya. His family moved to Canada in 1971. Over the years has worked diligently and climbed the corporate ladder to host his own show on MSNBC called Velshi & Ruhle, complete with an office on the esteemed NBC headquarters in New York.
Continue reading “Ali Velshi | Kenyan-born broadcaster tells poignant family tale in bid to urge Americans to vote”
By Andrew Sylvia | Manchester Ink Link
NASHUA, N.H. – Donald Trump is well known for his policies aimed at limiting immigration. But in spite of this, he still has a group of supporters who have migrated to this country who gathered in Nashua last week for an event highlighting the Trump campaign’s diversity.
Continue reading “Congolese among New Americans who praise Trump at Nashua event”
By NORAN ALAA MORSI | Egyptian Street
With identities strewn across the Atlantic, a young Egyptian American father sends their U.S. presidential election’s vote early in the mail. Another votes online through email in Cairo. A 20-something in a town deep in Indiana mails in their ballot. In Washington D.C, a dual citizen questions her decision to vote but does it anyway.
Continue reading “U.S. Presidential Elections: Young Egyptian Americans Choose Between Fates”
E. Gyimah-Boadi, Landry Signé, and Josephine Appiah-Nyamekye Sanny | Brookings Institution
Despite the Trump administration’s announced December 2018 Africa strategy, a significant gap between the lofty blueprint and the concrete actions needed to turn it into reality remains. U.S. interests in the region are being increasingly undermined as China, Russia, and other powers move to fill the policy spaces left vacant by the United States and other Western nations.
Continue reading “US foreign policy toward Africa: An African citizen perspective”
By Gerren Keith Gaynor | TheGrio
A few days before the November 3rd election, the campaign for then President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President elect Kamala Harris released an agenda to support the African diaspora. The comprehensive plan aims to address the inequities and bolster the socio-economic conditions for citizens and immigrants of African descent living in the United States.
Continue reading “A look at Biden-Harris ‘Agenda for African Diaspora’”
A Trump victory in the 3 November US elections is likely to see the US intensify its attempts to roll back China’s successful Africa policy. A Biden administration will find areas in which its US-Africa policy will converge with that of China. The US and China will be more likely to cooperate within multilateral forums and will actively seek a multilateral approach to global challenges, such as peacekeeping and health matters.
By David Monyae | Daily Maverick
Continue reading “There’s a lot riding on the outcome of the US presidential election in terms of Africa’s relations with China”
Buoyed by bipartisan commitment and a new government agency, the United States has taken new and significant steps to help drive investment in Africa, strengthen the region’s dynamic economies, create lucrative opportunities for US and African businesses, and advance US foreign-policy goals in the region.
Continue reading “The US government makes its big push for investment in Africa”
By Yomi Kazeem | Quartz Africa
Since US president Donald Trump took office in 2016, Nigeria has been one of the targets of several of his administration’s anti-immigration policies and negative comments. But he remains quite popular in the world’s largest Black country by population.
Continue reading “US elections |Trump is popular with Nigerians despite visa bans”
By Salem Solomon| Voice of America
WASHINGTON – The African diaspora in the United States is mobilizing voter drives, as organizers believe 2020 is a time for these voters to flex their political muscle as never before.
Continue reading “African Diaspora Looks to Flex Political Muscle in US Elections”
By John Campbell | Foreign Affairs
Continue reading “U.S. Africa Policy Needs a Reset”
By Dickens Olewe | BBC News
Despite making pejorative remarks about Africa, US President Donald Trump has attracted a devout following among some Christians on the continent.
Continue reading “US elections | The African evangelicals praying for Trump to win”
By Freedom Reporter
A 34-year-old Nigerian, Austin Chenge, is in the race for the governorship position in the state of Michigan in the United States (U.S.), come year 2022.
Continue reading “Austin Chenge | Nigerian-American joins race to be Michigan governor”
Trump or Biden: Who will US-Egyptians vote for? The decisive factor is the US foreign policy towards Egypt and the Middle East.
By Marwa Ibrahim | Ahram Online
Continue reading “Egyptians in the heart of the American presidential elections”
While the United States is considered to be the land of opportunity, it is not always the same for many immigrants who seek a better life and education from their native countries. But a Kenyan born American, Boni Njenga, himself an immigrant who went to the United States by default 17 years ago is seeking to be the remedy to the problems facing not only the huge immigrant community in Minnesota, but also native Americans in the county.
Continue reading “Boni Njenga | Kenyan-born American seeks top position in Minnesota”
By Vincent Salzo | Patch
The 2020 election is heating up in Connecticut and there are plenty of races with candidates eager to serve in elected office. Eyes are primarily focused on the presidential election, but every state representative and senate seat is up for grabs. All five of Connecticut’s congressional seats are up for grabs as well.
Continue reading “Weruché George | Meet the Nigerian-American running for the state House of Representatives for Hamden 91st District”
By Sarah Al-Arshani | Business Insider
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has delivered a pretty devastating comeback to President Donald Trump after his dog-whistle attack on her Somali origins at his Pennsylvania rally.
Continue reading “Ilhan Omar to Trump, “Why Are You So Obsessed With Me”?”
By Naunihal Singh | Africa Report
Regardless of who wins the US elections in November, analysts have argued that a process of updating and revitalising US policy towards Africa is overdue. New data from Afrobarometer’s latest round of public attitude surveys conducted across 18 African countries during 2019/2020 provide several guideposts for US policy makers.
Continue reading “US/Africa policy must have voices of ordinary people from across the continent”
By Gracelin Baskaran | Brookings Institution
In recent months, the U.S. began negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement with Kenya. These negotiations are aligned with the current administration’s vision for trade reciprocity rather than unilateral trade preference programs. Although these negotiations could produce the first bilateral trade agreement between the U.S. and a sub-Saharan African country, a shift from regional preferential trade agreements to bilateral free trade agreements could undermine the growth of smaller countries, who may not be of enough economic interest to the United States.
Continue reading “US-Africa trade relations: Why is AGOA better than a bilateral free trade agreement?”
By Jasper Hamann | Morocco World News
Moroccan-born politician Ihssane Leckey ended in fifth place after a promising bid to replace Joseph Kennedy III in the US congress. Leckey, a former Wall Street regulator, ran on a platform of progressive politics and gained the support of Somali-American Ilhan Omar.
Continue reading “Ihssane Leckey | Moroccan-American Loses Congressional Race”
Oballa Oballa has come a long way after fleeing genocide in Ethiopia and starving in Kenya’s Dabaab Refugee camp before arriving in America in 2013. After being granted citizenship last year, he has decided to run for Austin Minnesota City Council first ward.
by NJERI MBUGUA | The Star
Fifty years ago, lawmakers in Washington opened the doors to immigrants from Africa. Today, dozens of new Americans — from Liberia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Somalia, and more — are running for office in Minnesota. And they’re winning.
By IBRAHIM HIRSI | SAHAN JOURNAL
Continue reading “Minnesota’s Black immigrants are running for elected office — and winning”
By Astead W. Herndon | The New York Times
Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota fended off a well-funded primary challenger, ensuring a clean sweep of re-election fights for the group of first-term Democratic congresswomen of color known as the Squad and sending a message to Washington about the staying power of the party’s new progressive voices.
Continue reading “Ilhan Omar | Somali-American Wins House Primary in Minnesota”
By SHEILA REGAN | SAHAN JOURNAL
The former teacher who now runs a tax and immigration service finished third in Tuesday’s primary voting for the city council. In November, he will be among six candidates, including three incumbents, competing for three seats on the council. If he finishes in the top three, the city will have its first Black, and first Somali, council member.
Continue reading “Somali American is in the running for a St. Cloud City Council seat in November”
By GhanaWeb
Ghana Diaspora PAC recently endorsed Oklahoma educator and community leader Kojo Asamoa-Caesar’s run for United States Congress. Asamoa-Caesar made history as the first Ghanaian American nominee for U.S. Congress in June after winning the Democratic primary for Oklahoma Congressional District 1.
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By myjoyonline
Kojo Asamoa-Caesar has become the first Ghanaian-American to be nominated by a major American political party to run for the U.S Congress. The first-generation American won the nomination of the Democratic Party in the primaries for Oklahoma’s First Congressional District, Tulsa, and is set to challenge Republican party incumbent, Kevin Hern, in the general elections.
Continue reading “Kojo Asamoa-Caesar: Meet the first Ghanaian-American to run for U.S. Congress”
By JOEY PETERS | SAHAN JOURNAL
Two second-generation immigrants won upset endorsements late Thursday from Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party delegates to represent their districts in the state legislature. Omar Fateh gained DFL support over state Sen. Jeff Hayden, who was running for a third term to represent his south Minneapolis district. And in the state House of Representatives, Esther Agbaje won the DFL endorsement over state Rep. Raymond Dehn, who was running for a fifth term in a district that represents parts of downtown and north Minneapolis.
Continue reading “Two second generation African immigrants oust DFL veterans to win party endorsement for Minnesota legislature”
By Sophie Kasakove | THE GUARDIAN
The Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar has unveiled a bill that would cancel rent and mortgage payments for millions of Americans struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic. Under the legislation, landlords and mortgage holders would be able to have losses covered by the federal government. The program would extend for a month beyond the end of the national emergency, which was declared on 13 March, and would be made retroactive to cover April payments.
Continue reading “Somali-American congress woman, Ilhan Omar, unveils bill to cancel rent and mortgage payments amid pandemic”
